* One of the following conditions must occur for a crime to be defined as violent under this definition: actual physical harm or threat of physical harm, or a reasonable probability existed that individual criminal acts could have resulted in unintended physical harm or the threat of physical harm.

Youthful (17 or under) Admissions Over Five Years

Type of Offense

Number

Percent

Average Sentence
Length in Years*

Average Age at
Admission

Murder, Manslaughter

125

7.0%

17.2

16.5

Sexual offenses

75

4.2%

10.7

16.6

Robbery

448

25.0%

6.7

16.9

Violent Personal offenses

267

14.9%

5.2

17

Burglary

456

25.5%

4.6

16.9

Theft/Forgery/Fraud

119

6.7%

2.3

17.1

Drug offenses

166

9.3%

3

17.2

Weapons

52

2.9%

2.8

17

Other

81

4.5%

4.8

16.2

* Sentence lengths of 50 years or longer, life, and death are coded as 50 years for calculations of averages.